THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, il Grechetto (1616-1670)

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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, il Grechetto (1616-1670)

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with inscriptions 'G. Bened. Castiglione' (recto) and 'Benedetto Castiglione' on the mount; black, brown and red chalk, watercolour and bodycolour
285 x 420mm.
Provenance
An inscription 'Haym' on the backing

Lot Essay

Dr. Ann Percy has, on the basis of a photograph, confirmed the attribution. The figure of the pointing man appears in a painting The Miracle of the Bitter Water turned to Sweet recorded in an engraving by Pietro Monaco published in Raccolta di centododici stampe, Venice, 1763, J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection VI, Italian Eighteen-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, p.186, fig.30

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